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Point guards moving quickly made the NBA trade deadline a transition game. Goran Dragic, Michael Carter-Williams, Reggie Jackson and Brandon Knight all were dealt Thursday in the final hours that trades were allowed, as a number of teams handed their keys to different drivers. Kevin Garnett also has a new address — his original NBA one. The Timberwolves brought him back to Minnesota by sending Thaddeus Young to Brooklyn. There were so many players on the move in deals agreed to shortly before the noon PST deadline that most of the transactions were still awaiting NBA approval hours later. Dragic and Jackson were two players to watch on deadline day, because neither was expected...

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Point guards moving quickly made the NBA trade deadline a transition game.
Goran Dragic, Michael Carter-Williams, Reggie Jackson and Brandon Knight all were dealt Thursday in the final hours that trades were allowed, as a number of teams handed their...

The Lakers are still searching for the heir apparent to All-Star guard Kobe Bryant.
When the NBA's current most valuable player award winner, Kevin Durant, forward for the Oklahoma City Thunder, possibly becomes a free agent after the 2015-16 season, the...

The Lakers (5-16) hope to end a three-game losing streak when they host the Sacramento Kings (11-10) on Tuesday night at Staples Center.
The Kings have been playing without center DeMarcus Cousins, who is sidelined indefinitely with viral meningitis....

Five things we learned in the Lakers' loss to the Sacramento Kings on Friday night:
1) Is anybody safe? Ronnie Price left three minutes into the game after banging knees with Kings point guard Darren Collison while taking a charge. Wayne Ellington left...

Broderick Turner picks the West (in predicted order of finish)
PLAYOFF-BOUND
1.San Antonio
2013-14 finish: 62-20.
Coming: Kyle Anderson.
Going: No one of significance.
Despite a storied history, the Spurs have never won back-to-back titles. In...

Farhan Zaidi sees a great trade for the Dodgers.
"Hey Josh Byrnes, what do you think of this?" he asks.
"I like it, let me ask Andrew Friedman," Josh says.
Friedman replies, "I have to run this by Stan Kasten."
Stan says,...

If you ever meet Jeremy Lin, don't bring up the "L" word.
He doesn't like it. Definitely tries to create distance from it.
That wild run in New York might as well have happened three decades, not three seasons, ago.
The Lakers guard now...

When the NBA preseason game in Beijing between the Sacramento Kings and the Brooklyn Nets went into overtime Wednesday night, Chinese fans in Beijing’s MasterCard Center stood up with excitement. But instead of cheering for the Kings’ Omri Capssi -- whose...

NBA general managers may have felt this week like siblings watching the stack of presents swell under the tree in the days before Christmas.
Look, there's LeBron James next to the electric train set!
Wow, that's Carmelo Anthony beneath the stockings!
...

Milwaukee Bucks 108 - Lakers 105 (end of regulation)
The only true win for the Lakers on Thursday night in Milwaukee against the Bucks was a loss.
Already out of the playoffs, the Lakers hurt their draft position with back-to-back wins over the...

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Bucks are an awful team, clinging to the NBA's worst record week after week, month after month.
But they can always remember one thing about this season. They swept the Lakers.
It became official Thursday, 108-105, another loss...

The Lakers are well-represented throughout the NBA.
On Saturday, former Lakers center Andrew Bynum signed with the Indiana Pacers.
Guard Shannon Brown, who won two titles with Bynum and the Lakers, also signed a 10-day contract on Saturday with the...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In times like these, with the Lakers down to no healthy point guards, it's tempting to ask "What if?"
What if Ramon Sessions hadn't opted out of the final year of his contract, a move setting in motion a chain of events that...

It was the trade deadline that was nearly D.O.A.
Besides the last-minute deal that sent Evan Turner from Philadelphia to Indiana, it was mostly a day of high-profile inactivity. There have been minute-long slug races that produced more movement.
Pau...

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Now he's the likely No. 1 pick.
Noel still can't jump because of surgery for...

The Lakers rarely lose desired players. Although Dwight Howard left for the Houston Rockets in free agency, there are only 13 former Lakers currently under contract to other NBA teams:
Point guards: Derek Fisher (Oklahoma City Thunder), Ramon...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Darren Collison limped out of the training room to his locker and plopped his weary body into a chair, his sprained left big toe now the biggest worry the Clippers have to face.
Collison gutted through "some discomfort" for 29...

DALLAS — Kobe Bryant is now delivering head fakes and double-pump fadeaways on the Internet.
This could have been predicted when he joined Twitter this year, and you could almost see him grinning while hammering out the vague phrases...

Smush Parker was the Lakers' point guard the last time the Timberwolves beat them? I've got news for you. Smush would start for this year's edition too. And he'd look so good next to the rest of the turkeys they've got playing that Bill Plaschke would...